Braeval 2000 Distillery Reserve Collection – BTC 2017 #10

Past halfway now, an awesome competition so far and here’s another total blindsider (for me at least). I think I’ve only tried one Braeval before, and I’m not even sure about it. Braeval is a Speyside distillery owned by Chivas brothers and mainly used in theit blends. This bottling is part of a series of single cask bottlings that Chivas releases to showcase their lesser known distilleries (a la Flora & Fauna). It was quite a thick and oily dram and I went with a bourbon matured Bunnahabhain because there had not yet been an Islay whisky in the competition (little did I know what was coming up next)

I found this one to be very good but a tad boring. It had all the notes I could think of if I had to describe the general concept of whisky to a total stranger, but nothing truly unique. It’s an issue I have with a lot of these single malts mainly used for blending. Still a very enjoyable sipper though.